An Air Quality Curriculum for Grades 6-12

Air Quality is a multidisciplinary, Delaware-centric program designed to increase awareness of air quality issues, identify sources of pollution, describe their effects, explore the actions people, businesses, and industry can take, and develop environmental awareness in students.

This lesson includes a kick-off activity that helps students understand the basics of air pollution, including causes, effects, and potential solutions. Also included in this lesson is a cooperative Jigsaw activity that offers an in-depth understanding of air.

At the heart of this lesson is map activity in which students will locate businesses in their area that release pollution into the air, the types of emissions from these facilities, and the health hazards of these emissions.

A series of activities to help students understand that America’s transportation system contributes to a large portion of the nation’s environmental problems. In this lesson students will keep a personal transportation chart in order to log their own transportation choices.

This lesson’s focal point is on the effects of acid rain. Students will role play the part of something that is effected by acid rain while the rest of the class attempts to answer the question of “Who or What Am I?”